-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 12:00, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html >> > > Interesting. This reminds me of some article I read somewhere regarding > the perception that people tend to take things that are free as in beer > (linux, for instance) to mean that they are not worth anything. > > The author proposes that instead of telling people that linux is free > (and hence worthless) it would probably be a better idea to quote the > price of paid support of, say, Ubuntu desktop @ $250 per year, and then > tell them that since he happens to be a 'licensed distributor' for it, > he could manage to get them a couple of licenses for free. > > This, he says, has the benefit of making those people think that they > are getting a product worth a lot for free because they happen to know > someone who is an 'insider'.
Now that's interesting and clever... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Working with women is a pain in the a**." My wife -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH3u4dS9HxQb37XmcRAmGdAKDHF6WrnhIcnbMZQ8vk04zjr6O+uwCgjcAF oi/8OYLRWG7xxacQBGPfYYw= =qL/x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
